pound sand

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform. idiomatic,informal
    — "Bishop McKillup lives there. He's got only three wives, and they three all put together don’t know enough to pound sand with a mallet, with a receipt on the handle." For which striking symbol of imbecility I should have given Jake a good deal of credit, if I had not heard him using it several times before as a regular stock expression
  2. To engage in a futile activity. idiomatic,informal
    — […] Without men on the ground, we'll be pounding sand."
  3. To go away; get lost; go to hell; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless. derogatory,idiomatic,slang
    — All you do is complain. Why don't you go pound sand up your ass and stop bothering the line staff.

词形变化

pounds sand present,singular,third-person pounding sand participle,present pounded sand participle,past pounded sand past

词汇关系

相关词
enough sense to pound sand into a rathole

词源

Of 19th-century origin. Used as an example both of an activity so simple that almost anyone could do it and of an activity so pointless that only a fool would do it.
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